Police have arrested two men and women leaders of a ring who provides abandoned houses for teenaged school children for sex activities in the outskirts of Colombo, top police sources disclosed.

Police said the suspects were arrested at Piliyandala while enjoying liquor with two student couples of a school in Maharagama.

On being questioned, the female students had confessed that they had their school uniforms inside the school bags and the couple offered them alternative temporary clothes which they wore at a lonely house in Maharagama known to the two couples.

The male students have confessed that they paid cash to the couples who provided the abandoned home and also bought liquor for them.

Police said the men and women involved in this ring were not husbands and wives but men and women known to each other in the sex and marketing trade.

Investigations revealed that the male students have to pay Rs.2,000 for the couple to occupy the abandoned house for three hours and buy liquor for them.

Police have detained the men and women for further interrogation while the parents of the students were summoned to the Police station for an inquiry.

Police said the students were between the ages of 14-18 who are been enticed by these men-women ring who follow young student couples from locations where tuition classes are held and befriend them to offer lonely spots for sex activities.

-Lankapuwath-